Perseus - JS Sargent

Perseus - JS SargentGorgeous museum grade reproduction of John Singer Sargent's 'Perseus' watercolour. The painting is after the famous 'Perseus with the Head of Medusa' bronze sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, showing the hero standing triumphant after slaying the gorgon.

consolidated the empire's frontiers (Hadrian's Wall in Britain is his most famous)

from Tivoli onward

and the cap of invisibility from Hades

A minimalist single-line drawing of Menelaus

A print of an Apollo fresco in the tradition of the Roman wall paintings recovered from Pompeii

The Pantheon was built by the Emperor Hadrian between roughly 118 and 128 AD on the site of an earlier temple erected by Marcus Agrippa in 27 BC

the composition reads differently: the long line of the spine

Patroclus begged to be allowed to lead the Myrmidons himself — in Achilles' armour

owl — runs almost unbroken from Greek vase painting through Roman sculpture into Renaissance

and a figure Greek sculpture kept returning to

Menelaus invoked the oath the kings of Greece had sworn during her earlier courtship — all of them to come to the aid of her eventual husband if she were ever taken — and that oath became the political justification for the Trojan War

A print of the Theatre of Aspendos — one of the best-preserved Roman theatres anywhere in the ancient world